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  • Fact-check: Is the First Lady of Pakistan ill?

    Fact-check: Is the First Lady of Pakistan ill?

    Claim: A screen grab of a news channel apparently airing news that Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif’s wife Tehmina Durrani is experiencing heart trouble is doing the rounds on social media.

    The screenshot says that Tehmina Durrani is experiencing heart complications.

    Fact: Taking to Twitter, Durrani clarified that she is doing very well.

    She wrote, “A country that makes falsehood it’s national language needs to recognise that TRUTH is Islam. By the grace of God, I am very well.”

    VERDICT: The news is false.

  • Modi says want normal and neighbourly relations with Pakistan

    In an interview with a Japanese news media outlet, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he wants “normal and neighbourly relations” with Pakistan.

    “However, it is incumbent upon them to create a conducive environment free from terrorism and hostilities. The onus is on Pakistan,” he added.

    While talking about Indian’s relation with China, Modi said, “Peace and tranquility in the border areas are essential for normal bilateral ties with China”.

    He said that future development of India-China relationship can only be based on mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interests.

    He added that “normalising” the ties would benefit the wider region and the world.

  • Fact-Check: Have Imran Khan’s sons joined Twitter?

    Fact-Check: Have Imran Khan’s sons joined Twitter?

    Claim:

    Twitter accounts of both the sons of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan have emerged on the micro-blogging site with usernames @SulemanIsaKhan and @kasimkhanreal. Many people are sharing tweets from the accounts, believing them to be Qasim and Suleman Khan.

    Fact:

    However, the screenshots of the accounts are fake, as are the accounts themselves.

    Imran Khan’s ex-wife and mother of his sons, Jemima Goldsmith, has confirmed that both accounts are imposters.
    “Fake accounts pretending to be my children, created by imposters with a political agenda in Pakistan. This is exactly what I feared would happen when you took away Twitter’s verification blue ticks. FYI my children are not on social media & have no plans to be,” she wrote in a tweet.

    Verdict: The verdict is false.

  • JI chief Siraj-ul-Haq attacked by suicide bomber in Balochistan

    JI chief Siraj-ul-Haq attacked by suicide bomber in Balochistan

    A convoy led by Siraj-ul-Haq, the Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), was attacked by a suicide bomber on Friday in Zhob, Balochistan.

    The Secretary General of the party, Ameer ul Azeem, has confirmed that an explosion took place near the convoy. He further said that the attacker has been killed.

    Siraj-ul-Haq and all members of his convoy are safe.

    The JI chief was on his way to address a rally in Zhob when the attack took place.

  • Imran Khan says crackdown on party worse than Zia, Musharraf eras

    Imran Khan says crackdown on party worse than Zia, Musharraf eras

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has expressed concern on recent crackdowns by law-enforcement authorities on party members.

    In a tweet, Khan said that such episodes didn’t even take place during General Ziaul Haq and General Pervez Musharraf’s regimes.

    He added that despite all of this his party will not bow down.

    The Punjab government has claimed that terrorists who were involved in the attack on military installations on May 9, are hiding at Khan’s Zaman Park residence. The authorities have asked the former Prime Minister to hand them over. On May 18, an operation was expected to take place at Imran Khan’s home, however, it didn’t happen.

    Now, it is being reported that Punjab police have obtained warrants from the court to carry out a search operation in Zaman Park.

    According to details, an officer of the rank superintendent of police will lead the party which will also include female personnel. Commissioner Lahore Division will accompany the search team.

  • Imran finally condemns attack on Lahore CC House

    Almost 10 days after Corp Commander House in Lahore was ransacked and burnt during protests by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters, party Chairman Imran Khan has condemned the attack, Geo has reported.

    In an informal chat with journalists outside an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Imran Khan said that the attacks led to Pakistan’s image being damaged, adding that they should not have happened.

    “I have condemned it earlier too. Every Pakistani is condemning it,” the former Prime Minister reportedly said.

    He also lashed out at the Pakistan Democratic Movement led government for “arresting 7000 people.” However, he said that he has been stressing on dialogue since 11 months.

  • President Alvi advises Imran Khan to openly condemn May 9 events

    President Alvi advises Imran Khan to openly condemn May 9 events

    President Arif Alvi has said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan should openly condemn the May 9 violent protests that broke out across the country.

    In an interview with Hamid Mir aired on Geo News, the president called for a probe into the violence.

    “The people involved should be punished in line with the law,” he said, emphasizing that taking action should not mean that the suspects are tortured.

    Alvi, referring to the human rights violations taking place in the country, said that we need to be careful, else it will set a very bad precedent.

  • ‘Auspicious day’: Pakistan, Iran inaugurate Polan-Gabd electricity transmission

    ‘Auspicious day’: Pakistan, Iran inaugurate Polan-Gabd electricity transmission

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif along with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inaugurated an electricity transmission line project from Iran to Gwadar at Mand-Pishin crossing point of Pakistan-Iran border on Thursday.


    The two leaders also inaugurated a sustenance marketplace at the Mand-Pishin crossing point.


    “This is an auspicious day for Pakistan-Iran friendship,” PM Shehbaz Sharif said while addressing a press briefing.
    “In coming years, these markets would emerge as major trade points,” he added.


    “We have decided to finalise the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries at the earliest,” said the prime minister.


    The project, which has been delayed since 2009, was finished in a record-breaking four months, according to Minister of Information Marriyum Aurangzeb.





  • Imran Khan asks NAB for his shaving kit left in police lines Islamabad

    Imran Khan asks NAB for his shaving kit left in police lines Islamabad

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has submitted a written response to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case.
    The PTI chairman was summoned today by NAB in connection with an investigation related to a £190m settlement from the UK at 10am today.

    In the written response, Imran said that it was not possible for him to appear before NAB Rawalpindi and join the investigation as he was in Lahore for obtaining bail in a multitude of cases.

    Imran said that the allegations made by NAB are “absolutely false, frivolous and concocted”.

    He said he was in the process of applying for, and obtaining, bail in a number of other legal cases and would not be available before his protective bail expired on May 22.

    Imran has also asked back for his shaving kit and the clothes that he left behind in Police Lines Islamabad. “Kindly note that although the inquiry report was provided to me during custody, I could not carry the said Inquiry report, or for that matter, my clothes and shaving kit, with me when I attended the court proceedings before the honourable Islamabad High Court on 12-05-2023,” read the document.

    “As such, I would request that before serving me a Call Up Notice and pursuant thereto recording my statement and requiring production of documents accordingly, a copy of the said Inquiry report (along with my clothes and shaving kit that have been left behind in the room where I stayed in Police Lines Islamabad) may be immediately forwarded to me at my address at Zaman Park, or, in the alternate I will instruct my legal counsel in Islamabad, Mr. Gohar Ali Khan, ASC to visit your office at your convenience, to collect the copy of the report of Inquiry I left behind while proceeding to attend the Court hearing on 12-05-2009.”

  • ‘Army Act ke tehat kaarwaayi hosakti hai, magar nahin honi chaahiye’: PTI’s Ali Zafar on May 9th protesters

    ‘Army Act ke tehat kaarwaayi hosakti hai, magar nahin honi chaahiye’: PTI’s Ali Zafar on May 9th protesters

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Senator Barrister Ali Zafar while talking to media about the May 9 protests, said that only those protesters can be prosecuted under Army Act who have actually attacked any military installations, adding that they should not be charged under a “conspiracy theory.”

    The Barrister continued by saying that action against those who attacked Army installations can be taken under Army Act. However, it should not happen because the matter is a political issue, adding that fair trial can only be provided in civil courts.

    He also condemned the attacks on Corp Commander House and other military installations, adding that he had told PTI Chairman Imran Khan the same thing.

    Read more: PDM be warned: allow Army Act trials and some day military laws might be used against you too

    A Special Corps Commander Conference held on Monday at the General Headquarters (GHQ), presided by Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir, decided that the planners, instigators, abettors and perpetrators of the attacks on military installations and buildings during the protests led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters will be tried under relevant Pakistani laws, including the Army Act and Official Secret Act.